Cromer v. Cromer's Adm'rs
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was heard at Staunton, but decided at Richmond. It was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Rocking-ham, brought by Joseph Cromer’s administrators against Martin Cromer, to recover the sum of $4,000 which Joseph Cromer had paid in his lifetime as the surety of Martin Cromer in a guardian’s bond.
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This case was heard at Staunton, but decided at Richmond. It was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Rocking-ham, brought by Joseph Cromer’s administrators against Martin Cromer, to recover the sum of $4,000 which Joseph Cromer had paid in his lifetime as the surety of Martin Cromer in a guardian’s bond. On the 21st of April, 1845, Martin Cromer qualified as the guardian of Josephine Cromer, the daughter of ^Joseph Cromer, in the county court of Rockingham, gave bond in the penalty of $0,000, with said Joseph Cromer and others as his sureties. Afterwards, the ward, Josephine…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
Section 19 of the act establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, approved March 7th, 1867, (14 Stat. at Large, ch. 176, p. 517, Revised Statutes of United States, § 5067), declares what debts and claims are provable against the estate of the bankrupt in the bankruptcy proceedings under that act. Section 32 of the same act, (Rev. Stat. U. States, §§ 5114, 5115), provides for the discharge of the bankrupt and a certificate of discharge “from all debts and claims which by said act are made provable against his estate, and which existed on the day on which the…
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- Cronan v. CottingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Strange v. FloydSupreme Court of Virginia · 1852
- Kendrick v. ForneySupreme Court of Virginia · 1872
- Hamtramck v. Selden, Withers & Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1855